I hope you heal quickly. My experience runs counter to Dirt — I heal much faster when I ignore physical therapy. (After the mandatory post-op physical therapy visit when I had my ITB replacement/bone graft/screw job on my knee, I didn’t go back.) Dirt’s right, though, find out what you can and can’t do and then learn the difference between pain and discomfort. Pain can and often does mean you’re doing too much, while discomfort just means you’re pushing yourself. Just don’t do anything stupid — that’s the “do as I say, not as I do” part.